Pogotrichum Reinke, 1892
Holotype species: Pogotrichum filiforme Reinke
Original publication and holotype designation: Reinke, J. (1892). Atlas deutscher Meeresalgen Im Auftrage des Königlich Preussischen Ministeriums für Landwirthschaft, Domänen und Forsten herausgegeben im Interesse der Fischerei von der Kommision zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung der deutschen Meere. Vol. 2 pp. [i-iv], 55-70, pl. 36-50. Berlin: Paul Parey.
Request PDFDescription: Plants mostly epiphytic on Laminaria thalli, attached with a rhizoidal base or a small disc, forming tufts of fine filaments, slightly gelatinous, simple, partly monosiphonous and partly parenchymatous, solid, up to 5 cm or less in length and 200 _m in diameter, yellowish to dark brown. In monosiphonous thalli, cells are barrel-shaped, in polysiphonous thalli inner cells some larger than peripheral cells. Each cell contains several disc-shaped chloroplasts with prominent pyrenoids. Phaeophycean hairs absent. Unilocular and plurilocular sporangia formed on the same or separate thalli, both directly transformed from peripheral vegetative cells, singly or in sori, sometimes continuous. Unispores as well as plurispores normally biflagellated, containing a chloroplast with a stigma. Life histories without sexual generation known in P. filiforme (Pedersen 1978) and P. yezoense (Sakai and Saga 1981). P. filiforme produces only plurilocular sporangia and P. yezoense produces both plurilocular and unilocular sporangia. Unispores as well as plurispores develop into creeping filamentous microthalli with plurilocular sporangia, on which erect macrothalli develop. Copulation of plurispores not observed in either of the species.
Information contributed by: H. Kawai & P. M. Pedersen. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-11-02 by M.D. Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Gender: This genus name is currently treated as neuter.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Silberfeld, T., Rousseau, F. & Reviers, B. de (2014). An updated classification of brown algae (Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae). Cryptogamie Algologie 35(2): 117-156, 1 fig., 1 table.
Comments: The fully developed parenchymatous thallus of this genus is unbranched, terete, filiform, and without true hairs. The initial stage of the macrothallus is uniseriate without a terminal true hair. At any developmental stage, any cell of the macrothallus may be transformed into plurilocular, or more seldom, into unilocular sporangia. The transformation is not preceded by vegetative divisions. The microthallus is pseudostreblonematoid, i.e. consists of uniseriate branched filaments. Any cell in the microthallus may also be transformed into sporangia. Three species have been referred to this genus, however, 2 of them are of questionable justification (P. yezoense and P. setiforme). The life history has been studied by Pedersen (1978a), P. filiforme var. filiforme, and by Sakai and Saga (1981), P. filiforme var. yezoense. P. filiforme occurs quite commonly in the North Atlantic as an epiphyte and also, but more seldom, in the northern Pacific.
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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.
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